[HN Gopher] Drive through cities in the browser while listening ...
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Drive through cities in the browser while listening to local radio
stations
Author : herval
Score : 191 points
Date : 2020-06-16 19:26 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (driveandlisten.herokuapp.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (driveandlisten.herokuapp.com)
| headcanon wrote:
| This is amazing. I love going through the youtube videos like
| this where its just people driving through a city. Feels like
| traveling, and if you are traveling to a city it can be a good
| way to familiarize yourself with it before you go.
|
| The addition of the radio station just makes it feel that much
| more immersive.
| ycombonator wrote:
| I just tried Wuhan
| egd wrote:
| This is great - wonderful sense of presence, especially with the
| road noise mixed in. It would be really fantastic in VR.
|
| (Also, 50 different cities and a couple stations for each? That's
| no small amount of work!)
| serf wrote:
| cool experience, but small gripe : the grimier parts of Los
| Angeles are a million times more fun to drive through than a loop
| through 'the Hills', Malibu, or Beverly Hills.
|
| I'd hate foreigners to think that's what LA is like, not by a
| long shot. Driving through LA is a lot more like driving through
| a huge industrial area with a small metropolitan ultra-lux oasis
| every few miles.
|
| If someone wants to get the real feel for Los Angeles, in my
| opinion of course, jump on Google Earth, start at El Segundo and
| Crenshaw Blvd. and 'drive' south until you hit San Pedro.
|
| THAT's a true Los Angeles drive. (imo, of course).
|
| For an even fuller 'California' experience, drive up PCH
| afterwards and have dinner on the coast somewhere nice.
| qppo wrote:
| > THAT's a true Los Angeles drive. (imo, of course).
|
| It's also wholly outside the Los Angeles city limits
| adjkant wrote:
| So are Beverly Hills and Santa Monica, but I'd argue most
| would call them LA.
|
| https://www.google.com/maps/place/Los+Angeles,+CA/@34.010126.
| ..
| warpech wrote:
| Coming from Poland, a 30 minute drive through a random
| industrial area in LA to pick up the keys to an AirBnb days was
| one of my most horrifying moments in life.
|
| That was my first time in the US. Getting behind the wheel to
| drive through the dark, narrow streets at dusk only brought
| memories from crime TV shows, where bad things are guaranteed
| in such places.
|
| To my relief, only good things happened :)
| splonk wrote:
| The Havana stream is pretty cool if you're into classic cars.
| Quite a few just on the streets, since the embargo basically
| stopped US car imports after 1960.
| ceocoder wrote:
| Thank you for making this. I didn't realize how much I miss
| visiting London. If the creator is reading this - can you please
| add Dublin as well? If this is on github, happy to send a PR with
| this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX8bD5tpQWQ
| chrisseaton wrote:
| What is the London radio sound to your ears? I would have
| thought Radio 3 or 4 would be iconic London but they're not on
| here!
| ceocoder wrote:
| I have little to no experience with London radio, I spend
| most of time chatting with cabbies when I'm in a black cab.
| What I miss is seeing pub, pret, pub, pret, pub, pret :)
| richardwhiuk wrote:
| https://radiotoday.co.uk/2020/02/rajar-q4-2019-london-and-
| na... suggests Radio 4, Radio 2, Capital FM, in that order
| metabagel wrote:
| Please consider adding KCRW to Los Angeles.
|
| https://www.kcrw.com/
| CallMeMarc wrote:
| I think its already in there
|
| https://puu.sh/FXajT/bce4ecc81c.png
| celicaraptor wrote:
| Going into fullscreen(F11) causes the video to zoom(i would say
| 50%) and causes a degradation in quality and a loss of field of
| view.
| mod wrote:
| Came here to type this. Mine zoomed in much farther, but I
| would have liked to eliminate the browser mess.
|
| Otherwise, this is very, very cool. Thank you to the author.
| blakesterz wrote:
| Super cool! If by some chance the creator of this is reading
| these comments, The Toronto drive brought up "WNED Classical"
| which isn't a Toronto station, it's out of Buffalo.
| imjustsaying wrote:
| I guess that's even more realistic then. Can you actually hear
| the Buffalo station in Toronto?
| beached_whale wrote:
| I used to love getting the US ATCS tv stations out of NY
| state. Universal Sports was awesome, 24hr a day amateur
| sports, then NBC bought it and I moved.
| dang wrote:
| A small recent thread:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22972812
| samizdis wrote:
| That's a shame.
|
| I'd like to see some sort of mash-up between it and
| radio.garden.
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23477771
| techload wrote:
| This is so cool! Feature request: a toggle to hide the right bar.
| benenglish wrote:
| The toggle is already there - click top right on the eye logo
| FroshKiller wrote:
| Neat! But I can't say I'm a fan of the analog TV static. That's
| mixing the metaphor.
|
| Reminds me of the Truck Simulator games that had support for
| streaming local stations over Internet radio in game.
| kulor wrote:
| So good! It's a more immersive version of radio.garden that
| popped up this week on HN.
| sknzl wrote:
| That's great, really cool!
|
| I wonder why it's deployed to Heroku. Isn't it just static
| html/css/js?
| monkpit wrote:
| I clicked play on mobile and I immediately got an advertisement
| to get a quote for a new kitchen?
|
| Immediately closed. Disappointing.
| [deleted]
| rexreed wrote:
| Got the same here. Something is up on mobile.
| [deleted]
| olmideso wrote:
| Great idea! I think you can you can add driving on the highways
| to the list, it looks quite nice when combined with a radio.
| Here's an example of something similar:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39JXpMMmAp4
| tantalor wrote:
| Street noise is way too loud.
| tpmx wrote:
| In some cities. Sound volume normalization/tweaking is needed.
| utopkara wrote:
| Logged in to say kudos. This is a fantastic idea. Driving around
| in Antalya now, and I am transported mentally.
| rkagerer wrote:
| This is neat, but I find it irresponsible they don't blur faces
| and license plates.
|
| Once upon a time you asked people for their permission before you
| took their photo; much less before you posted it somewhere for
| the world to see.
|
| EDIT: The videos are from popular Youtube videos, so the footage
| is already public (though I still can't help feeling like it's
| propagating a problem).
| the_arun wrote:
| Fantastic! Would love to see Bengaluru, India :)
| milquetoastaf wrote:
| This is cool but can we please have an option to disable or lower
| the volume of the white noise? its jarring and not at all like
| radio noise
| rezmason wrote:
| Coincidentally, I'm updating the companion Spotify playlist for
| my online port of the 2005 procedural driving demo, Drivey:
|
| https://rezmason.github.io/drivey
|
| Playlist:
| https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4ukrs3cTKjTbLoFcxqssXi
|
| Slightly different vibe, equally free of charge, feedback always
| welcome :)
| packym wrote:
| There goes my day... driving around Amsterdam, it's lovely.
| chimen wrote:
| Better yet, mute those local stations and put some Moby on
| kvothe_ wrote:
| This is really unique
| stevofolife wrote:
| This is so fun. Add more cities! :D
| ak007 wrote:
| This is amazing !! thank you for creating it
| magwa101 wrote:
| brilliant
| epicureanideal wrote:
| What I find interesting is that cities everywhere seem to be
| roughly at the same level of development. The GDP of a country
| may be different, GDP per capita might be wildly different, but
| in most places on earth there are still roads, cars or
| motorcycles at least, reasonably well built structures, and so
| on.
|
| If you look at the different architecture, you might be able to
| figure out roughly where you are, but you would also be able to
| tell WHEN you with similar accuracy.
| coding123 wrote:
| The internet has sped up pretty much everything in modern
| society. I would say in the last 20 years, it wasn't the earth
| shaping the internet, it was the internet shaping the earth.
| renewiltord wrote:
| Holy Jesus, this is amazing. It took me back to moments in my
| life but I just going through the stories and the sounds of the
| radio.
|
| Incredible artwork.
|
| EDIT: I did notice that some switches didn't correctly switch
| some of the channels. I was in Antalya and definitely listening
| to some American channel and the same for Bombay because I am
| confident no one there talks about possums and drywall :D
|
| EDIT 2: Also, lots of Turkey. Loving it.
| chester_r wrote:
| I think this is a great way to teach young children about the
| world in a way that resonates with them. So much of their
| observation of the outside world occurs from the seat of a car
| (for better or for worse). It's a big part of their universe;
| they often pay such close attention to every little detail, so
| the differences around the world should be immediately obvious to
| them.
| tasssko wrote:
| I love finding ways to talk about the world with my son, when i
| travel for work i get a small souvenir just so i have a
| physical object we can talk about from the place i've just
| been. Regarding your comment and after watching the London
| video it reminded me of our first trip as a family to London.
| We took electric black taxis all around the different sites in
| central London. I hadn't planned on doing that but we had a
| tough stretch on the central line so the taxi was a welcome
| upgrade. Anyway my son loved the taxi, it is silent, has huge
| windows, glass roof and you really get to see London from
| inside. We did day time trips and ones at night. It was so good
| i tried to game taxi ranks to keep getting them. I think its
| good for children to have a worldview which is easy with
| youtube today.
| vecinu wrote:
| Oh my goodness, it even has the UPS trucks and random Uber/Lyft
| drivers blocking the driving lanes in San Francisco. That's what
| I call realism, it's bringing back PTSD for me.
|
| Fantastic project, works really well, almost too well!
| halite wrote:
| What this has scammy popups when browsing on a phone?
| rexreed wrote:
| Agreed. I got a popup about kitchen installation. What's
| happening with this app on mobile?
| CamelCaseName wrote:
| This is really neat, though I wish I could listen to AM / news
| channels rather than just FM which tends to be more music.
|
| Also, I think the bike/moped driver in Wuhan runs a red about a
| minute or two in!
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